The Future Chords by Leonard Cohen

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Give me an acma [Em] broken at [Dm] my mirror, bro.
My secret life [D] is lonely here.
[E] There's no [D] one left [Am] to torture. _ _ _ _ _ _
Give me absolute _ [C] _
[Dm] control over every living soul [D] in life.
Sign [E] me, baby.
[D] That's [Am] an order. _ _ _ _ _ _
Give me a crack and [Em] anal sex.
[Dm] Take the only treat that's left.
[D] _ Stuff it up [E] the hole in your [Am] culture. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Give me a back for a [G] murder mall.
[Dm] Give me a star in St.
Paul.
[Ab] I've seen your future, [E] brother.
[D] It [Am] is murder. The danger. _ _ _
[Dm] _ Things are gonna [C] slide. _
_ Slide in all _ directions.
[Dm] And nothing, _ nothing _ [C] you can't measure _ anymore. _ _
[Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard [C] of [F] the world has crossed the threshold.
[Fm] And it's over time, the order of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ _ When [G] they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent, repent.
_ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent.
_ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ When [G] they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent, repent.
_ I wonder [Am] what they mean.
You _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ don't know me from [G] the wind.
[Dm] You never will.
You never did.
[Ab] _ I'm the little [E] Jew who [Am] wrote the Bible. _ _ _ _ _
I've seen the nations rise [Em] and fall.
[Dm] I've heard their stories, heard them all.
[D] But love's the [E] only engine of [Am] survival. _ _ _ _ _
Your servant here, he has [G] been told [Dm] to say it clear.
To say it cool, [Ab] it's over.
It [E] ain't going any [Am] further. _ _ _ _ _
And now the wheels of heaven [Em] stop.
[Dm] You feel the devil's riding crop.
[D] Get ready for [E] the future.
[Bm] It [Am] is murder. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Things are gonna _ [C] slide. _
Slide in all directions.
The wisdom won't [Dm] be nothing.
_ _ Nothing [C] you can measure _ anymore. _
[Dm] The blizzard.
_ The [C] blizzard of the world's [F] crossed the [D] threshold.
[Fm] It's over.
Turn the corner of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, _ [D] repent, [G] repent, repent.
_ I [Am] wonder what [Em] they mean.
[Am] _ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent, repent.
_ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ _ When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent.
_ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There'll be the breaking of the ancient western _ code. _ _ _
[Dm] Your private life will suddenly _ explode.
_ _ _ _ There'll [Am] be _ phantoms, there'll be fires [G] on the [Am] road.
And to await [B] man [F] dancing, _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ you'll see [Am] a woman _ named _ _ _ Saddam. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] Her features covered by her fallen gown.
_ _ _ And [Am] all the lousy little poets come around.
_ Trying to [C] sound like Charlie [F] Manson. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ Here to await [Am] man dancing. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Give me that Berlin [Em] Wall.
[Dm] Give me Stalin and St.
Paul.
[D] Give me [E] Christ or give [D] me [Am] Hiroshima. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Destroy another, feed [G] us now.
[Dm] Don't let children in and out.
[D] I've seen the [E] future, baby.
_ [Bm] It [Am] is murder. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Things are gonna _ [C] slide. _
Slide in all [D] directions.
There won't [Dm] be nothing.
_ _ Nothing [C] you can measure anymore. _ _ _
[Dm] The blizzard.
The blizzard [C] of [F] the world has crossed the threshold.
[Fm] And it's over time, the order of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent, repent.
_ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent.
_ I [Gbm] wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, _ _ repent, repent, repent.
_ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent.
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